Does a child go missing in the United States every forty seconds?

Wondering where in Washington

Viewing other Missing Children in Washington and you may wonder how many of those listed as “Endangered Missing”, “Endangered Runaway” or “Lost, Injured, Missing” are children such as Joseph Felton but who never returned home?

If they are never recovered or reunited with their families, will we really know? It is easy for people or authorities to categorically dismiss them as runaways but you really don’t know what fate they may have met.

Even reading the circumstances of their disappearances in some cases offers few definitive answers.